Before Jesus left the earth, He said to His disciples, "I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot hear them now. But when He, the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into ALL the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to You." (John 16:13-14). Jesus' heart is SO full to speak to us. He longs for us to know all truth. He yearns to share the innermost parts of His heart with us. Jesus went on to say that He was for this reason sending a Helper to share all truth with us. One of our privileges as followers of Christ is to walk in and know His light and truth. The Holy Spirit longs to commune with us, to speak truth into us, to be invited to fully invade and inhabit every part of our being.
The devil often uses life events to bring us out of the reality of God's truth and fill our mind with lies--lies that, if bought into, will cause us to forget our true identity in Christ. We have the right to claim that, to live in His identity! He left His place with God to come to earth and die to give us the possibility of that reality--membership of the Heavenly Kingdom and an earthly life lived in His presence, with the Holy Spirit as our guide and teacher. How it must grieve Him when we fail to walk in His truth and instead buy into the lies the devil tries to ensnare us with to take our eyes off Christ. The key, I believe, to guard against the devil's lies is to be always in His presence. Things that are of the devil cannot abide in God's presence. His presence cloaks us, cocoons us in His truth. And when we are walking in His truth and light, we are able to be fully effective for the Lord because we are not hindered by the lies the devil tries to use to limit our effectiveness. Well, that is my thought for the day. Hawaii continues to be beautiful, and Jesus continues to always be more than enough.
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